Zimbo is a 1958 Hindi action adventure film directed by Homi Wadia and produced by Basant Pictures.[1] John Cawas, the earlier hero of most Wadia Movietone adventure films is credited in the title role of the film as associate director, with special effects by Babubhai Mistry. The screenplay was by JBH Wadia with dialogues by Chand Pandit. The music was composed by Chitragupta, with lyrics by Majrooh Sultanpuri.[2] The film starred Azad, Krishna Kumari, Chitra, Achala Sachdev, Sheikh and Dalpat.[3]
The story idea was similar to Tarzan of the Apes; Homi Wadia made use of a "popular culture" icon like Tarzan and changed the name to Zimbo, with an Indian setting.[4] The film was originally made in 1937 as Toofani Tarzan, directed by Homi Wadia and produced by Wadia Movietone.[5]
The film was dubbed into Tamil with the same title and released in 1958.[6] Aaroor Dass wrote the dialogues and Kuyilan penned the lyrics. Adapted music was composed by VijayaBhaskar. The dubbing was done at Film Centre, Chennai. Editing of the Tamil version was done by M. Thaththaiah and G. Venkataraman.[7]
The film had special effects by Babubhai Mistry. Zimbo was a loose remake of Wadia Brother's Toofani Tarzan (1937), which did not have an ape. This time the main attraction of the film was Pedro the chimpanzee, also called the Ape Bomb. Pedro, called Dada in the film, wore female clothes for comic effects and got to handle a gun in the end. According to Rajesh Devraj, the film became a success at the box office.[8]
Just two weeks later, the film crew hit the ground sprinting in Cape Town, and immediately began shadowing the team at work and play, with family and friends and mentors, tasting their personal wines (Jo and Tinashe have their own labels) and others, in many of the significant places which signpost their paths from refugee centres to the top restaurants in South Africa. Above right is team captain Jo being filmed recently by Rob (left) and Warwick in the Cape garden where he used to work. It belongs to Sue Pugh, an old school friend of Tam's from Bulawayo. Small world. Below are the guys in their team T-shirts.
Printed and circulated during the original first release run of the film in the 1950s, this rare hand painted Bollywood poster was designed and printed for publicity of the film but never ended up being used.
Zimbo is a 1958 Bollywood action adventure Hindi film directed by Homi Wadia and produced by Basant Pictures. The film featured special effects by Babubhai Mistry and starred Azad, Krishna Kumari and Chitra. The film was originally made in 1937 as Toofani Tarzan minus the ape, directed by Homi Wadia and produced by Wadia Movietone.
At the Wahorn movie theater, a movie called Cuddles Saves the Forest III is being featured and The Monsters exit the restroom searching for humans to scare. Ickis sneaks into the theater and takes a view at the movie, which Oblina and Krumm warn him about watching. Ickis tells them that he isn't scared of the movie and his friends leave him to watch the remainder of the film. He does, however, become startled when he sees Cuddle Bear. Ickis walks out of the theater and screams when he sees a cardboard cut-out of the lead character of the movie. He runs away and into the toilet.
When Ickis makes it into the sewers, Zimbo notices his fear and flies away. Krumm and Oblina tell the other monsters about Ickis' temerity to watch the movie and Zimbo says that Ickis wouldn't last five minutes through the cutesy movie. This prompts Ickis to face the others and claims that he wasn't the least bit apprehensive of the film. Zimbo tells Ickis that he wouldn't have the temerity to stand up to Cuddle Bear if he was real, which Ickis says that he would. As Ickis continues to boast, Zimbo has an idea of his own.
Later, at nighttime, Ickis looks inside his locker to pull out his wet sponge. But Oblina takes it away from him, seeing that Ickis was really scared of the movie. She tries to convince him that the film was made up and that he is a real monster, which Ickis is asked to reiterate over and over right before he gets his wet sponge back and The Monsters go to bed.
Penny Woolcock has been directing award-winning documentaries, feature films and opera for the stage for twenty years. Her recent work includes On The Streets (2010) a film about homeless people on the streets of London and 1 Day (2009) about a day in the life of an inner city hustler. www.pennywoolcock.co.uk
Jess Search is Chief Executive of the BRITDOC Foundation, which has given funding and support to over 60 award-winning and influential documentaries including Oscar-nominated Hell and Back Again, The Yes Men Fix the World, Afghan Star and The End of the Line. In partnership with the Sundance Institute, BRITDOC runs Good Pitch. Jess was previously a Channel 4 Commissioning Editor and a founder of Shooting People, the online social network for filmmakers. She has an MBA and is on the board of IPPR the progressive think tank.
Sarah began working with the Foundation during the BRITDOC Film Festivals 2006-2008 and then progressed to act as Distribution Consultant for The Yes Men Fix The World and Erasing David, helped launch the Yes Men and Shooting People Branded Channels for the Babelgum online platform and acted as a consultant for Working Films. She nows manages operations for BRITDOC Films, the new distribution arm of the BRITDOC Foundation, which includes the launch of Ping Pong (www.pingpongfilm.co.uk, supported by the BFI and Big Lottery Fund), One Mile Away, and advising on social issue campaign strategies for films that take part in our Good Pitch events.
StopTrik International Film Festival is dedicated to stop motion techniques of hand-made, spatial animation as puppet film, claymation, object or photography manipulation, animation of loose materials (such as salt, sand etc), pixilation, traditional cut-out and many more. The list of sub-genres could be complemented with such exceptional techniques as animation of lights, fire, yarns, threads. Artists' imagination is limitless and so we can be neither orthodox nor strict while defining the term \"stop motion\". The ultimate goal of this unique annual gathering is to admire and celebrate artistry of hand-made, spatial animation together with all the other drifters of the surreal, absurd or merry highways who are ready to pursue frame by frame illusion.
Nonetheless, far removed from the drama at home, Gurira is basking in the glory of the debut of a movie that is expected to reaffirm black pride across the globe. A visit to Zimbabwe last month confirmed to Gurira that excitement for the film was indeed widespread.
Ever since his first appearance in Batman #1 in 1940, the Joker has been at the forefront of Batman's Rogues Gallery, the yin to Batman's yang. He's been a criminal mastermind, a goofy prankster, and a sadistic psychopath responsible for the death of Jason Todd, who was the second Robin, and the paralyzation of Barbara Gordon in Alan Moore's iconic The Killing Joke. The Joker as a film character has garnered Academy Award wins for the late Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight and Joaquin Phoenix in Joker. He stands alone as a unique entry in DC's classic canon of super villains, an unbridled force of chaos with an unparalleled savvy for bringing hell to Earth. And his story begins with the 1928 silent film The Man Who Laughs, an adaptation of Victor Hugo's 1869 novel.
The film begins in the court of King James II (Sam De Grasse), where court jester Barkilphedro (Brandon Hurst) presents Lord Clancharlie (Conrad Veidt), an exiled nobleman who returned for his son, Gwynplaine. Before having Lord Clancharlie executed, the King informs him that Gwynplaine now has a grin carved upon his face by a Comprachico surgeon (the Comparchicos, as described by Hugo, are a group of wanderers that bought and sold children that they turned into monsters through mutilation). Gwynplaine is abandoned, and while he walks through a snowstorm he rescues a blind baby girl. The pair are given shelter by a kind showman named Ursus (Cesare Gravina), and his pet wolf Homo (Zimbo). Now older, Gwynplaine (Veidt) and Dea (Mary Philbin) travel with Ursus, performing in his plays. Gwynplaine has achieved notoriety for his frozen smile, and is dubbed "The Laughing Man." Yet he can only feel shame for his appearance, and although he and Dea are in love, Gwynplaine believes that he is not worthy of her. While at the Southwark Fair, Gwynplaine is recognized as the heir to Lord Clancharlie's estates, which rest with the Duchess Josiana (Olga Baclanova).
The Man Who Laughs was promoted by Universal as a horror film, a precursor to the Universal Classic Monsters made famous by the studio from the 1930s to the 1950s. That classification, largely, misrepresents the film, which seeks to explore the themes of acceptance, beauty within, and man's inhumanity to man. The Man Who Laughs has no intention of scaring its audience, but rather challenging it. So if the film itself lends nothing to the mythos of the Joker, what does? It's the telltale deformity made from a permanent smile carved into a boy by an evil man. The gruesome look was created by make-up genius Jack Pierce, through the use of a dental contraption that kept Veidt's mouth hooked at the corners. Outside of context, the visage is striking, unsettling, and, most importantly, memorable. When the team of Bob Kane, Bill Finger, and Jerry Robinson were looking to create a nemesis for their Batman, the image of Veidt from The Man Who Laughs gave them the look they were searching for, a physical characteristic at odds with his actions.
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